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John Steinbeck’s Letter Asking Marilyn Monroe for Her Autograph (1955)

John Steinbeck’s Letter Asking Marilyn Monroe for Her Autograph (1955)

"Dear Marilyn, In my whole experience I have never known anyone to ask for an autograph for himself..." ...
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A Sunny Sea of Denim at the Watkins Glen Summer Jam in 1973

A Sunny Sea of Denim at the Watkins Glen Summer Jam in 1973

On a hot summer day in July 1973 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway in New York about 600,000 rock fans turned up to see the Allman Brothers Band, the Grateful Dead and The Band perform. ...
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Maria, Me And Zen Archery: Lee Friedlander’s Family Album

Maria, Me And Zen Archery: Lee Friedlander’s Family Album

"There’s so much information in a picture that often I don’t see until the fifth reading or 30 years later" - Lee Friedlander ...
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‘Home to Meet God’ – 1960s Florida in Kodachrome

‘Home to Meet God’ – 1960s Florida in Kodachrome

Gorgeous images from vacations in the Sunshine State ...
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Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: A Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: A Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

WHEN disco hit its stride in the mid to late Seventies, it transcended language and boundaries. Perhaps, the secret of its success was that the criterion was so damn simple:  Can you dance to it?  If the answer was “yes”, chances are, you have a disco hit on your hands. ...
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1940s Florida in the Glorious Colors of Kodachrome

1940s Florida in the Glorious Colors of Kodachrome

The 1940s weren't all shades of brown, ravaged by war, shaped by fear and filmed in black and white. In Florida, USA, there were holidays in the glorious colors of Kodachrome. ...
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In the Minute With Ivan Kyncl: Photographer Captures The Spirit of Theatre

In the Minute With Ivan Kyncl: Photographer Captures The Spirit of Theatre

Photographs by Ivan Kyncl capture the essence, atmosphere and emotion of a theatrical production ...
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FAC 235: The New Order Blue Monday Flipbook (1988)

FAC 235: The New Order Blue Monday Flipbook (1988)

Get a load of this Factory Records-issued flipbook for New Order's 'Blue Monday' ...
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Shiny Big Boots and Smoking in the Bath: Wonderful Photos of the 1939  FA Cup

Shiny Big Boots and Smoking in the Bath: Wonderful Photos of the 1939 FA Cup

On the 29 April 1939, four months before the start of WW2, Portsmouth beat the favourites Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-1 in the FA Cup Final. Subsequently, because of the war, the tournament was not held again until 1946. ...
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Guido da Vigevano’s Art of The Cadaver (1345)

Guido da Vigevano’s Art of The Cadaver (1345)

Guido da Vigevano is a forerunner of later Renaissance artist-engineers like Taccola, Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Leonardo da Vinci ...
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Fabulous Pictures of the Great John Peel

Fabulous Pictures of the Great John Peel

“At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.” ...
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The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

These Kodachrome slides are from when go-ahead Americans believed a flying car was just around the corner ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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